"But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts, being ready always to satisfy every one that asketh you a reason of that hope which is in you. " -I Peter 3:15
Each year on the 21st of March the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the great Patriarch of Western Monasticism: Saint Benedict. Because of the long reaching nature of his […]
The Liturgical YearDom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B.Volume 5 – LentChapter I – The History of LentThe Forty Days’ Fast, which we call Lent [In most languages the name given to this Fast […]
“Allow me to become food for the wild beasts, through whose instrumentality it will be granted me to attain to God. I am the wheat of God, and let me […]
On the 26th of January each year we celebrate the feast for one of the earliest Saints and Martyrs of the Church. He was the disciple of the Beloved Disciple […]
First Council of Lyons – 1245 A.D. CONTENTS Abbreviations INTRODUCTION Bull Deposing The Emperor Frederick II CONSTITUTIONS I On rescripts Those to whom cases should be entrusted Curtailing legal expenses […]
Lost in Translation A Brief Commentary on the Issues with Modern Translations of Biblical and Liturgical Texts into English by Servus Immaculatae Ever since God scattered the peoples of the […]
The Liturgical YearDom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B.Volume I – AdventChapter I – The History of AdventThe name Advent [From the Latin word Adventus, which signifies a coming] is applied, in the […]
“The underlying principle of these new opinions is that, in order to more easily attract those who differ from her, the Church should shape her teachings more in accord with […]
Slavery has existed since almost the very beginning, and it exists still today in various forms. But Americans have become obsessed with the atrocities of the African Slave Trade of […]